Summary: Are 80 conductor cables really better than 40 conducter cables? Or is this just a gimmick? Windows 2000 Professional SP4 Intel PIII 733 256k Coppermin...
Summary: Is there any performance benefit in using 80-wire 40-pin IDE cables with CD or DVD burners instead of the standard 40-wire 40-pin IDE cables? Are ther...
Summary: Per Soyo, your MOBO is good to ATA 66 ... unless a BIOS version alows it to do ATA 100. This is controversial but I've noticed a big performance diffe...
Summary: Thanks DAVE, I already have a Promise Ultra ATA/66 controller. I assume it is working because my current HD is working fine NOW, but I really need to ...
Summary: Meant to say it supports Ultra ATA. Here is a link for ya also. Notice the difference in data transfer rates between the 40 pin and 80 cables. 80 PIN ...
Summary: You have to partition the HDD before it will show up in My Computer. While in XP and sitting at the desktop. Right clcik My Computer, Then Manage, the...
Summary: If you still get this trying to boot "Searching For Boot Record From CDROM...Not Found" that idicates to me, the bios is going to CD first to read bu...
Summary: I ran a simple test with a PCI Ultra ATA 133 RAID IDE contoller card.The OS is Windows 2000.The PCI card shown in Control Panel has the following chip...
Summary: If the motherboard bios is dated June 1999 or later it should detect the hard drive up to 137 GB without problems.Make sure you get a 80 conductors 40...
Summary: IDE cables are 40 and 80 wire but are 40 pin. You probably want a 80-wire 40-pin cable. Changing the cable should be pretty straight forward. I doub...
Summary: If you want to retain the old drive it should be the Slave drive.The new drive should be the Master drive.You need to use the right cable.The 80 condu...
Summary: Thank you so much for your time and interest. I agree with the point about "factory built" systems. I have seen the dispare when a friend/relative do...
Summary: "the laptop is 1yr and the pc is 4yrs old" You shouldn't be having problems with the laptop's drive yet, even if you use it a lot. If it's been on the...
Summary: Hi Chris, I am assuming you will be using IDE/ATA drives and not SCSI. On most computers, you don't have to do anything with the BIOS to add or replac...
Summary: No, its 80 conductor 40 pin. If you are sure you have an 80 conductor 40 pin cable, I would suggest opening the box and reseating it at both the mothe...
Summary: ALL IDE cables have 40 pins. ATA 33 spec cables have 40 wires/40 pins. Faster ATA specs have 80 wires/40 pins. If the cable connector isn't interch...
Summary: 300 dollars vs 40 dollars, thats why. I work in a factory. When we can go to war using a keyboard and a mouse, America will truly kick ass ...
Summary: Which hdd are you putting the OS onto ? 1)Connect it to the primary IDE connector. 2)Connect the seccond hdd and CD drive to the seconday IDE connec...
Summary: HI all along with being sure that there is a active partion on the drive, but do not think you would receive that error message, test the drive with ...
Summary: HI did you replace the IDE cable with a 80 wire 40 pin cable? if not do so. Master must be on end connecor and slave in center connector. and recheck...
Summary: All the cards were out. Did the partitioning all correctly. Copied all the cab files to the HD so it isn't the CD. Hard drive on controller 1 (Pri...
Summary: Yes they both show up right in bios for the most part. I have my 120 split into a 40 and a 80 the 40 doesnt show up but bios sees the 80 part. ...
Summary: Well, if you weren't confused before... All modern (80 strand, 40 pin) cables support 'cable select' and are colour coded There are (or were) 'old sty...
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